Pottery Barn Placemats to Pillows

DIY Pottery Barn Fall Pillows from placemats for under $7

 

I love shopping Outlet malls for the discounts but when shopping at the Pottery Barn Outlet, swooning over all of the great fall pillow covers, I was a bit shocked that they were still $30 for just the cover and then you had to buy the insert separately.

 

I'm just too cheap for that though so I continued to look around for other great deals and when I came across the table decor and saw the gorgeous fall placemats an idea came to me. I could open up the seams and stuff my own pillows with the placemats!

 

I quickly grabbed a mat and flipped it over to check the price $6.99 each!

Much better than $30 but even better, they were all 20% off!! Now I can get down with that :) I grabbed a few and made my way back to the pillow section to check out the pillow insert prices, ummm yeah, wasn't in the budget, so a trip to Goodwill would be next on the agenda.

 

So after running through Goodwill for some $1 pillows I got to work...

 

I cut open a little seam

 

 

Then cut open the Goodwill pillow and removed the stuffing

 

 

Shoved that stuffing into the opening in the placemat

 

 

Looking good!!

 

 

Now I do know how to sew so I just ran that little corner through the sewing machine, if you however do not have a sewing machine or don't want to sew, you could always buy some steam-a-seam and iron that seam closed.

 

Here they are in all their glory on the front porch

 

 

Not bad for under $7 each pillow!!

 

 

 

 

 See you back tomorrow for the full front porch all decked out for Fall :)

 

 

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